Cassie: A Mermaid Story

 

Synopsis

Cassie is a mermaid princess who longs to be loved. When she meets handsome Ben, a merman, from another kingdom, she believes she has found true love. But when her father’s kingdom is threatened by a takeover, will it threaten Cassie’s happiness?

 

Cast

Cassie – the heroine of the story

Simon – Cassie’s dolphin friend

Bobby – Cassie’s crab friend

Lyssa – Cassie’s turtle friend

Tara – Cassie’s older sister

Taryn – Cassie’s older sister and Tara’s twin

King Henry – Cassie’s father

Branson – Cassie’s true love, who may or may not be who he says he is

King Albert – Ben’s father

Queen Liza – Ben’s mother

Hecuba – the sea monster-witch who wants revenge on Cassie and her family.

 

Chapter 1

Hecuba, the sea monster reflects on the love of her life, Albert.

“I’ll be back for you, Hecuba.” Albert promises her with a final kiss before he swims off for the merman navy.

As Hecuba watches her love go off, she silently cries tears of sadness, knowing she will have to wait 2 years for her merman!

2 years later, Albert comes back looking for Hecuba, only to find out that Russell, a manipulative merman has informed Albert that Hecuba has moved on with him. Heartbroken, Albert leaves and heads to the Mermaid Tavern to drown his sorrows. But instead he meets the beautiful Liza and is instantly smitten. On the day of the wedding of Albert and Liza, Hecuba comes back from her mission after discovering that Albert has returned, but is horrified to learn that Albert has moved on with the fair Liza, her classmate in school.

Watching the wedding from afar, Hecuba vows revenge on the prince, who would become King.

Today, King Albert and Queen Liza are a happy royal couple with 3 daughters: Tara and Taryn (their twin daughters) and the youngest, Cassie (a beautiful mermaid with the sweetest voice ever).

Hecuba, who has turned into an evil sea monster due to her jealousy, sets her sights on Cassie, as she concocts her revenge plot on King Albert and his Queen Liza.

Now, Cassie and her older twin sisters, Tara and Taryn, are in school learning how to become royal princesses who will one day succeed to the throne.

“Cassie, you will never be Queen!” Taryn tells her matter-of-factly.

“That’s right, Cassie.” Tara agrees. “Everyone knows it’s the older child who succeeds.”

“But you two are the same age? Which one of you succeeds?” Cassie asked innocently.

“Well, naturally me!” Tara explained. “Since I’m the older by 3 minutes.”

Cassie didn’t care anyway. She was way to interested in finding love from an amazing merman. She just wanted to be a wife to a merman. But for now, Cassie enjoyed playing with her friends, Simon, a dolphin, Bobby, a crab, and Lyssa, a turtle.

Cassie never seemed to make friends with other mermaids or mermans. She found it difficult to open up to other mermaids and mermans. 

 

Chapter 2

Cassie grew into a beautiful mermaid more tempting than her older twin sisters. Cassie caught the eye of every eligible bachelor merman. But only one merman caught Cassie’s eye—Branson, a merman prince that even her older sisters were dying to get to know.

The only problem unbeknownst to Cassie and her sisters was that Branson was the son of Hecuba, the sea monster mermaid out to exact revenge on their father, Albert, for moving on.

As Cassie and Branson dated for a few years, they finally became engaged to be married—at the urging of Branson’s mother, Hecuba—who convinced her son to keep his identity a secret without revealing her past with her son.

Hecuba’s revenge was to get her son married to Cassie so he would be heir to Albert’s throne.

On the day of Cassie and Branson’s wedding, Hecuba Tara and Taryn weren’t there. They had mysteriously disappeared soon after Cassie and Branson’s engagement.

“How are my lovely guests doing?” Hecuba asked Tara and Taryn, who were locked up inside the dungeon where Hecuba brought her hostages after getting her merman goons to abduct the girls. It was her plot to make Cassie was heir to her father’s throne.

Taryn scowled at Hecuba, but Tara spit in Hecuba’s eye.

“Now is that any way to treat your generous hostess?” Hecuba said. “I’ll just have to withhold your breakfast for the nasty behavior.”

And Hecuba took their breakfast and left the girls alone in their prison, both longing to go home.

Back at King Albert’s mansion, Cassie was growing nervous as she got wedding for her wedding to Branson.

“Mother, do I have to do this?” Cassie asked, as her mother, Liza, brushed her long-flowing blonde locks.

“It’s just nerves, Cassie darling.” Liza told her. Neither wanted to admit the real reason of their sadness—Cassie’s sisters’ disappearance and not knowing what happened to them. “Just try to be happy, dear.”

King Albert waited in the vestibule of the church for his daughter to come down and join him as he walked his youngest daughter down the aisle to her prince, Prince Branson.

The wedding went off without a hitch, with Hecuba watching in the wings, waiting for the perfect opportunity to exact her revenge on King Albert and the fair Queen Liza.

Prince Branson and Princess Cassie were pronounced merman and wife—before Hecuba’s eyes.

“Watch out, Albert and Liza!” Hecuba said silently to herself as Branson walked Cassie down the aisle as his bride.

 

Chapter 3

Cassie was woken up by Hecuba from her slumber after her wedding night.

“What do you want?”

“I know where your sisters are!”

“Tara and Taryn? They’ve been missing for days.”

“Yes. I have them imprisoned in my dungeon!”

“So that’s why they never showed for my wedding day?”

“Yes. It’s all because of me!”

“What do you want from me?!” Cassie whispered angrily at her so not to wake Branson from his sleep.

“I want your first born daughter!”

“My first born daughter?”

“Yes. Sign here that when you give birth to a girl, you will relinquish her to me.” Hecuba told her. “Or your sisters will die!”

Cassie didn’t have any choice but to sign the papers giving up her first born daughter to Hecuba. How could she not? Didn’t Tara and Taryn deserve to be free from Hecuba?”

“There!” Cassie said throwing the signed papers at Hecuba. “Now go!”

Satisfied, Hecuba left Cassie in her marital bed. Too bad that Cassie was unaware of the drug that would allow her to become pregnant after her wedding night lovemaking to Prince Branson….

 

Chapter 4

Hecuba arrived back at her sea cave and set Tara and Taryn free, satisfied that Cassie did what she wanted. Now all Hecuba had to do was wait the nine months for Cassie to give birth to her daughter…

Meanwhile, back at the castle, Cassie came down late sick as Prince Branson become worried for her.

“Cassie, are you okay?”

“Just a little nausea.” Cassie told her husband. “I’ll be okay.”

“Still, we best get you to a doctor.” Prince Branson insisted, as did his parents.

Cassie ate what little breakfast she could before a coach came to take her to the royal family’s physician.

After a 30-minute wait in the examination room, the doctor came in to give Cassie the good news…she was pregnant!

Cassie sat in the back seat of the royal coach wondering how she could be pregnant so fast. Then it dawned on her…Hecuba! She did something to make sure she got pregnant! That’s why she had her sign the papers giving up her first born daughter! But how would she know she would have a girl?

Well, Cassie would just have to pray she had a boy!

The coach parked in front of the castle and the chauffeur helped Cassie out of the coach and to the front door where Prince Branson met her with loving arms.

“Cassie, I hope everything is fine.” He said with a kiss.

“Everything is good.” Cassie said, not sure she should tell him about the baby—that she would have to give up to Hecuba.

 

Chapter 5

Nine months later, after a difficult birth, Cassie gave birth to a daughter. Hecuba was waiting with bated breath for Branson to deliver the baby to her. But when he failed to show, Hecuba went to see what was taking so long.

When she entered Cassie's hospital room, she was angry to find Cassie, Branson, and their newborn daughter was gone!

Branson had managed to slip Cassie and their daughter out of the hospital under his mother's watchful eyes.

“I will find you, Branson! And when I do you will pay!” Hecuba vowed.

 

Chapter 6

When Branson, Cassie and their newborn daughter were in the safe place, Cassie confronted Branson, “Why did we slip out of the hospital?”

Branson came clean with Cassie, “My mother wants revenge on your family and she was going to use our daughter to do it.”

“So you tricked your mother and got us out of harm's way?”

“Yeah. I basically put my life in danger to save you and our daughter.”

“But one question: why does Hecuba want revenge on my family?”

“Because my mother was in love with your father, but she moved on with someone else—my father—who turned out to be a bad merman, and when she had finally broken free of him, my mother was hoping to reconcile with your father, but it was too late. He was already married to your mother.”

“And Hecuba has been jealous ever since?” Cassie deduced.

“To put it mildly.” Branson confirmed.

“And that's why she imprisoned my older twin sisters.”

“And ever since then, I've been working overtime to foil my mother's scheme.”

“Well, now that I know the truth, we can work together to bring down Hecuba.”

“I was hoping you would see it that way?” Branson said.

But while Branson and Cassie were busy trying to figure out a plan to foil Hecuba's scheme, an explosion rocked the safe place in the ocean...